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New Java SDK For Amazon Web Services

Amazon has announced the new AWS SDK for Java this March. The aim of the new SDK is to simplify the development of java applications that are hosted on the Amazon EC2.

The Amazon EC2 is a proprietary web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. The AWS SDK attempts to make web-scale computing easier for developers. The AWS Toolkit for Eclipse automates most of the steps required for the development cycle such as deployment, debugging, instance launching and network access management on the Amazon cluster. Accessing the AWS SDK requires registration to the Amazon EC2 service.

The new AWS Java library is a single jar file that provides a set of APIs and attempts to hide much of the low-level plumbing usually associated with programming on the AWS cloud, including authentication, retries, and error handing. The library supports most of the current services including:

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing - A utility that detects unhealthy instances within a pool and automatically reroutes traffic to healthy instances until the unhealthy instances have been restored

The Virtual Private Cloud - A service that enables enterprises to connect existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and extend existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources